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Live network map
Feeder runs colored by their worst pole, with storm badges and live tilt popups.
Operational grid monitoring
Know where tosend the crew
PoleDancer puts movement and line-power sensors on your distribution poles and turns them into one operating picture. When something breaks out there, your desk knows what and where before the phones light up.
- 1 cycle
- outage extent on the map, pole by pole
- +0.21°/wk
- AI flags slow drift weeks before threshold
- 0 wires
- solar powered, reports through outages
demo fleet: 24 poles, 4 feeder runs, one critical lean at 12.3°
01The console
One screen your operations desk can actually run on
Severity is computed the way your standards are written: lean thresholds, per-metric alert bands, and offline detection that respects each pole's reporting schedule.
From map pin to root cause in two clicks
Select any pole for its live tilt drawing, threshold-banded history, and an inclination gauge against its effective thresholds.
- History charts page back through time as you pan
- A dead sensor on a live pole raises a parameter-loss alert
- Install location vs. sensor GPS, with fallback rules
Your standards, drawn, not coded
Caution and critical lean angles are set on a draggable angle picker. A 0.5° adjustment is a hand movement, not a config file.
- Fleet defaults with per-pole, per-branch, and per-zone overrides
- Independent caution / critical bands per metric
- Interval-aware offline rules
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Thresholds that match your standards
Fleet-wide caution and critical lean angles, with per-pole overrides for the crossing that deserves a tighter watch.
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Independent alert bands per metric
Caution and critical bands on every environmental metric, plus alerts when a channel goes quiet.
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Zones & branches, with inheritance
Model your territory the way you operate it. Settings inherit device → branch → zone → fleet.
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Storm watch
Elevated reporting cadence for a branch, or the whole fleet, when weather moves in.
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Offline detection that respects schedules
Offline means late against its own expected interval, not a blanket timer.
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Accounts, roles & audit trail
Admin, operator, and read-only roles, with a full audit trail of every change.
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Alerts that reach your team
Email, SMS, and webhook notifications, scoped to the severities and zones each user owns.
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Field-tech view
A phone-first page per pole: navigate-to, notes, photos, mark-as-inspected.
02Predictive AI
AI that sees failure coming
Readings can stay within limits while a pole is steadily moving. PoleDancer's AI learns each pole's normal posture from its own history, separates weather noise from real movement, and forecasts when a drifting pole will cross your thresholds.
Turn emergency restoration into scheduled maintenance
A footing that's letting go moves slowly. The model flags abnormal drift weeks before it becomes an alarm and projects the crossing date, while the fix is still a scheduled truck roll instead of an emergency.
- Baseline models learned per pole from full-resolution history
- Drift forecasts raised while the pole still reads Normal
- AI fleet risk ranking of your most at-risk poles
- Every prediction shows the trend data behind it, no black boxes
03Operational value
Continuous monitoring pays for itself in operations
The value is in patrol hours, outage minutes, and truck rolls. Four places it shows up, each measurable during a pilot on your own system:
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Reduce outage patrol time
Event location and pole condition reach dispatch before a crew starts the search.
measured as: crew patrol hours avoided
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Shorten customer outages
Faster localization can reduce restoration time and improve CAIDI. Measured during your pilot, not promised.
measured as: customer minutes interrupted avoided
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Catch deterioration before failure
The AI tracks slow structural change per pole and forecasts which poles need review before they become emergencies.
measured as: pre-failure conditions identified
D
Cut unnecessary truck rolls
Remote condition data prioritizes inspections and avoids site visits that weren't needed.
measured as: truck rolls avoided
Industry deployments of continuous grid monitoring have demonstrated substantially faster event localization and restoration. It complements periodic inspection programs rather than replacing them, and we publish no guaranteed-savings math.
04Outage detection
When a span goes dark, know which one. Immediately.
Every node senses whether the line above it is energized. When supply drops, the affected poles flag themselves on the map within one reporting cycle, so dispatch sees the true extent of the outage before the first customer call.
And because every node is independently powered, PoleDancer keeps watching straight through the outage.
- Line-power state on every reporting cycle
- De-energized spans drawn separately from sensor-offline poles
- Sudden-movement events localize the damage, not just the outage
- 03:17:41Poles 182–188: line power lost
- 03:17:52Pole 186: sudden structural movement, +4.2°
- 03:18:04Poles 182–185, 187–188: structurally normal
The crew gets a pole number, not a patrol area.
05Storm watch
See the storm move through your infrastructure
Storm Watch raises the reporting cadence for a branch or the whole fleet, and highlights clusters of movement, outages, and abnormal conditions as severe weather moves through.
- Storm posture badged per branch on the map
- Elevated reporting cadence for the duration
- Outage and structural-event overlays
- Re-energized spans clear pole by pole as crews restore
06Hardware
Two nodes. One self-connecting network.
Sealed, solar-powered units your crews mount during routine work. Claim the factory serial (PD-XXXXXXXX) in the console and the node is reporting from its first message.
PD-S1
Sense node $995 one-timeThe workhorse. One on every monitored pole.
- 3-axis tilt: lean, pitch, and roll from vertical
- Line-power sensing, reports whether its span is energized
- Temperature, humidity, pressure, air quality, GPS
- Solar panel with sealed battery reserve
- Self-forming mesh radio that relays its neighbors' readings
PD-X1
Backhaul node $1,295 one-timeEverything the PD-S1 senses, plus the connection out. This is the cellular gateway for nearby PoleDancer nodes.
- LTE / 4G / 5G cellular modem
- Collects the mesh, one serves a typical run of 15–20 poles
- Store-and-forward buffering through network drops
Hardware is purchased separately from the monitoring subscription, and volume hardware pricing is available. Provisioning is by serial. No field flashing, ever.
07Deployment
Your crews already know how to install it
Nodes arrive provisioned and labeled. A crew mounts one below the crossarm during routine work, with no service drop and no field configuration, and the pole is reporting before the bucket is down.
- Solar with battery reserve, no connection to the line
- Joins the mesh automatically; only the PD-X1 needs cellular signal
- Claimed by the serial printed on the enclosure
- Turnkey installation available through a partner
08How it works
The poles look after each other
Sensors form their own radio network along the line, and one cellular node carries the whole run to the cloud. No wiring, no site survey, no IT project.
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Clamp a node to the pole
Your crew mounts it in minutes. Solar powered, so there's nothing to wire and nothing to set up in the field.
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Nodes find each other
Every sensor talks to its neighbors by radio and passes their readings along the line, pole to pole.
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One node phones home
A PD-X1 backhaul node gathers the whole run's data and sends it to the cloud over the cellular network.
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You watch it live
Map, alerts, and history in the console. When a pole leans, loses power, or goes quiet, you know which one.
Start with the corridor
that keeps you up at night.
09Founding utility pilot
Start with a pilot, not a system-wide commitment
A typical pilot monitors about 50 poles across one or two feeders for six months, through real weather and real outages, and ends with a performance and ROI report you can take to leadership.
Contact us for pilot pricing. Early expansions may qualify for deployment credits.
10Pricing
Simple pricing that scales with your grid
Start with a targeted deployment and expand once the value is on paper. The subscription covers monitoring, communications, alerting, analytics, and history. Hardware is purchased separately.
Monitor
Continuous visibility into pole condition and distribution-grid events.
$18/monitored pole/mo
Annual billing · 25-pole minimum deployment
- Continuous tilt & structural-movement monitoring
- Line-power status & outage detection
- Live fleet map, zones & branches
- Alert thresholds & email alerts
- Storm Watch mode
- 12 months of history
- Environmental telemetry
- Standard reporting & support
Best for utility operations
Operations
Advanced analytics and workflow tools for utility operations teams.
$29/monitored pole/mo
Annual billing · 25-pole minimum deployment
- Everything in Monitor
- AI trend analysis & failure forecasting
- AI fleet risk ranking & prioritization
- 5 years of history
- SMS alerts, webhooks & API access
- Scheduled & advanced reporting
- Detailed audit & event history
- Priority support
Hardware
Purchased separately from the subscription, so equipment and monitoring stay in separate budgets. Volume hardware pricing available.
PD-S1
Pole monitoring node
$995 one-time
PD-X1
Connected monitoring / gateway node, serves 15–20 nearby nodes
$1,295 one-time
Prefer hardware included?
Qualifying 36-month agreements can include hardware for an additional monthly charge. Operating expense instead of an up-front purchase.
Ask about managed hardwareStart with a utility pilot
Deploy ~50 poles, measure the operational impact, and expand on results.
Plan a pilotMonitoring thousands of poles?
Volume pricing from 100+ monitored poles. Enterprise integrations, SSO, self-hosted deployment, and rollout support quoted individually.
Contact salesAnnual billing, 25-pole minimum. One PD-X1 serves a run of 15–20 poles and its cellular data is included. Hardware ships provisioned. Installation by your crews or a partner.
11Questions
Asked by every operations manager so far
Do we have to instrument every pole?
No. Start where failure is expensive or likely: crossings, storm corridors, inspection-flagged poles, aging trunks. That's exactly what the pilot is scoped for.
How does volume pricing work?
List pricing applies from the 25-pole minimum. Deployments of 100+ monitored poles qualify for volume pricing on subscription and hardware, and larger deployments are quoted individually.
Why is there a monthly subscription if we bought the hardware?
The hardware is the field instrument. The subscription is the monitoring system: cloud monitoring, cellular and mesh communications, storage, alerting, analytics, updates, and support.
Can hardware be included in the subscription instead?
Yes. Qualifying 36-month agreements can include hardware for an additional monthly charge per pole. Contact us for terms.
What does a utility pilot include?
About 50 monitored poles on one or two feeders for six months. Hardware, provisioning, subscription, configuration, onboarding, monthly reports, and a final performance and ROI report. Contact us for pricing.
How does a pole know it lost power?
Each node senses the field radiated by the conductors above it. When that signature disappears, it reports the span de-energized. The sensors are solar-powered, so they keep reporting straight through the outage.
How many backhaul nodes do we need?
One PD-X1 per run of 15–20 poles, and the rest are PD-S1s. It's the only unit needing cellular coverage, its data plan is included, and we place them against a coverage map during rollout planning.
Who installs the sensors?
Your crews, during routine work. Units arrive provisioned and are claimed by serial. Turnkey installation can be quoted through a partner.
What happens during a storm?
Storm Watch raises the reporting cadence and badges the map. As crews restore service, re-energized spans clear pole by pole.
What does the AI actually do?
It learns each pole's normal posture from its own history, separates weather noise from real movement, forecasts when a drifting pole will cross your thresholds, and ranks the fleet by risk. Every prediction links to the trend data behind it.
Does this replace our pole inspection program?
No. It shows what happens between inspections (sudden events, slow drift, line power) but it can't see below-grade decay. What it changes is which poles get looked at first.
Can we run it inside our own network?
Enterprise deployments can run the full stack on infrastructure you control, with the same per-pole subscription.
Put a number on every pole you worry about
Start with a pilot on the corridor that keeps you up at night.